A tale of two clusters
Rain is scheduled for the next week, but I got one clear night last night beforehand. There wasn’t too much to pick from, so I found some star clusters that are far away from the galactic plane. These don’t tend to need so much data to turn out well. In… Continue Reading... "A tale of two clusters"
M81 and M82
The dull winter is quickly turning into spring. I was blessed with six mostly clear nights in a row. I had some software troubles and intermittent clouds, but I was able to get almost 30 hours of incredible data on the neighboring galaxies M81 and M82. I upgraded PHD2 to… Continue Reading... "M81 and M82"
Cloudy nights
That’s all I get this winter. 🙁 I figured out a couple of issues with my D5300 that made a time lapse the other night not work so well. I gave it another try tonight. I’m getting a little better at this each time. This is five second exposures over… Continue Reading... "Cloudy nights"
Moonrise
I had previously full-spectrum modified my Nikon D5300 when I initially wanted to use it as a dedicated astronomy camera. This modification lets in a lot of deep red and infrared light, which gives the images a strong red balance and not great focusing abilities. It also renders it useless… Continue Reading... "Moonrise"
First timelapse
I recently purchased a cheap 50mm f/1.8 lens for my Nikon D5300. The poor camera has just been sitting in a case for almost a year, I figured it needed something to do. I hope to start doing wide-field images with it when a mount that I ordered comes in.… Continue Reading... "First timelapse"
One night on M42
Can you believe it? I got almost an entire clear night to actually image this winter. Well, it dipped down to 9°F last night, and I broke off a little piece of my dome while freezing my fingers off closing up. But I was able to get a little over… Continue Reading... "One night on M42"
Enhanced Triangulum
With nothing else to do with the endless cloudy skies, most of my astronomy has lately consisted of looking at other peoples’ images. My favorite part of this hobby is the creativity you can use while post processing your images. Some people prefer the blue-orange of the Hubble palette, others… Continue Reading... "Enhanced Triangulum"
